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eriy directed, so the forest of this and other 

 states must be studied and developed that they 

 may be more effective playgrounds for the 

 people of the state. 



This new department of forest recreation in 

 the college of forestry -will be in charge of Pro- 

 fessor Henry E. Francis, who has made a spe- 

 cialty of this line of work and who during the 

 past five years has been carrying on landscape 

 extension work both in New York and Massa- 

 chusetts. During the coming summer Pro- 

 fessor Francis will begin systematic studies of 

 forest and park areas in 'New York to prepare 

 bulletins for recreational development, and late 

 in the season will make a trip through the Na- 

 tional Forests and National Parks of the west 

 to see what has already been done by the na- 

 tional government and by the western states in 

 developing the recreational possibilities of 

 forest lands. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Professor Edward S. Morse has been re- 

 elected president of the Boston Society of Nat- 

 ural History. 



The Edison Medal for meritorious achieve- 

 ment in electrical science or electrical engi- 

 neering, has been awarded to Benjamin G. 

 Lamme, of the Westinghouse Electric and Man- 

 ufacturing Company, and was presented to him 

 at the annual meeting of the American Insti- 

 tute of Electrical Engineers. The presentation 

 was made by William B. Jackson, vice-presi- 

 dent of the institute. 



William D. Hurd, director of the extension 

 service of the Massachusetts College and Sta- 

 tion since its establishment in 1909, has re- 

 signed, his resignation to take effect about June. 

 1, to accept a position with the National Fer- 

 tilizer Association with headquarters in the 

 middle west. 



Captain P. E. Landolt, of the Nitrate Di- 

 vision, Army Ordnance, has resigned from the 

 service and has returned to his work as chem- 

 ical engineer with the Research Corporation at 

 New York City. 



Professor Vaughan Harley, owing to ill 

 health, has resigned from the chair of patho- 



logical chemistry at University College, Lon- 

 don. 



M. Forneau, head of the chemical division of 

 the Pasteur Institute, has been elected a mem- 

 ber of the Paris Academy of Medicine in the 

 section of pharmacy. 



The seventy-second annual meeting of the 

 Paleontographical Society was held on April 

 25. Mr. Henry Dewey, Dr. F. L. Kitchin, Mr. 

 W. P. D. Stebbing and Mr. Henry Woods 

 were elected new members of council. Dr. 

 Henry Woodward, Mr. Robert S. Herries and 

 Dr. A. Smith Woodward were reelected presi- 

 dent, treasurer and secretary, respectively. 



The British list of New Year honors, the 

 publication of which has been delayed by cir- 

 cumstances arising out of the armistice, was 

 issued on April 27. Nature selects the follow- 

 ing names of workers in scientific fields: 

 Baronet: Dr. Norman Moore, president of the 

 Royal College of Physicians. Knights: Mr. R. 

 T. Blomfield, past president of the Royal In- 

 stitute of British Architects; Lieutenant^Col- 

 onel J. M. Cotterill, C.M.G., consulting and 

 late acting surgeon, Edinburgh Royal Infirm- 

 ary, and lecturer in clinical surgery, Edin- 

 burgh School of Medicine; Professor Israel Gol- 

 lancz, secretary of the British Academy since 

 its foundation ; Professor R. A. Gregory, chair- 

 man of the organizing committee, British Sci- 

 entific Products Exhibition; Mr. H. J. Hall, 

 organizer under the Ministry of Munitions of 

 the section dealing with the production of fer- 

 tilizers ; Dr. Edward Malins ; Mr. J. H. Oakley, 

 president of the Surveyors' Institution; Pro- 

 fessor W. Ridgway, professor of archeology. 

 University of Cambridge; Dr. C. S. Tomes, 

 r.R.S., and Dr. T. J. Verrall, chairman of the 

 Central Medical War Committee. 



The British Medical Journal writes: '"The 

 Council of the British Medical Association 

 has asked the president. Sir Clifford Allbutt, 

 K.C.B., F.R.S., to accept a portrait of him- 

 self as a gift from members of the medical 

 profession, and he has consented to give sit- 

 tings for the purpose to an artist of eminence. 

 Sir Clifford Allbutt has been president of the 

 association since August, 1914, and has on 



